Sunday, November 13, 2022

PaperBack: “Mike Shayne’s Torrid Twelve”

Part of a series honoring the late author and blogger Bill Crider.



Mike Shayne’s Torrid Twelve (Dell, 1961). This anthology collects a dozen (duh!) stories from Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine. According to The Thrilling Detective Web Site, only one of those tales features Brett Halliday’s titular Miami private eye.

Cover illustration by Robert McGinnis.

1 comment:

Todd Mason said...

from Amazon: Stories include: ‘Death Dives Deep’ by Brett Halliday; ‘Toy-Head Man’ by Franklin Gregory; ‘Fifth One’ by D. E. Forbes; ‘Rites of Death’ by Hal Ellson; ‘Patsy’ by Frank Kane; ‘Water's Edge’ by Robert Bloch; ‘Moonflower’ by Hope Field; ‘Hood is Born’ by Richard Deming; ‘Right Kind of a House’ by Henry Slesar; ‘Three Wives Too Many’ by Kenneth Fearing; ‘Sunday's Slaughter’ by Jonathan Craig; ‘Musical Doll’ by Helen Kasson.

I can definitely recommend the Bloch story, at least.